cathoderaydude

Update: Health

Hi everyone. I'm going to be posting a new video, probably later today, and while it's not one I'm un-proud of, it's not really what I want to be making. In fact, you might have noticed that it's been at least a month since my last, uh, "Big" video. And I'm not sure when my next "Big" video is going to be, because I have been having Health Problems.

Back around Christmas, I think I got covid. There's no way to be sure at this point, I couldn't get tested at the time and it's too late no...

My sewer situation / GoFundMe

There's more details in the linked GoFundMe but, in short, my sewer line is suddenly permanently clogged, and I have to get it replaced ASAP to the tune of $13,000, so I'm appealing to everyone I can for donations.

You're already contributing far more than I ever anticipated, and I think I can get a loan, so to be fully honest: I probably can pay for this. The trouble is, I'm already having difficulty managing my finances (I keep ending up completely broke between paychecks) an...

Video: What's My New Favorite Thing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOKpkWnrq4w

I've been meaning to make this video for many months, and I'm glad I finally did, but man, I hope it gets across what I intended, because I was really out of it.

I've been recovering from what I think may have been covid for nearly a month, I only just stopped coughing a couple days ago, and speaking above conversational volume has been difficult. My voic...

Actual tier update

Here's what I ended up doing instead:

$2 - Early access when practical
$5 - Discord and any bonus content I make
$20 - Name in credits.
$100 - I mail you cat pictures. Because it's funny, and provides a distraction from the $5-20 gap...

...because I realized I have nothing to offer that makes sense at $10, and never really did. I'll understand if you want to downgrade your pledge. To anyone who wants to stay at $10 anyway, thank you for your support!

I know people t...

Tiers, etc.

So, it's been a year since my channel and Patreon really started taking off. I'm reevaluating how I use Patreon, so it's one of These Posts as I try to figure out how to steer this vehicle.

In short: I'm going to switch my tiers up as follows for new subscribers but everyone reading this will get grandfathered in (Reddit says so anyway):

$2 is just the "thanks for the support" tier.
$5 gets you early access and Discord.
$10 ...

Video: Fast Floppies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWwp3vVtElw

(Edit: Uploaded version with minor tweaks.)

This is a video I've wanted to make for several years, ever since I discovered my Mavica had a high speed drive in it. As cool as all of these are, it's still frustrating that they simply never became mainstream. Floppy drives could have been improved before the end of the eighties, there was really no reason fo...

Patron video: Shill emails!!

So as I explain in the video, I get a lot of "promotional" emails. If you've ever wondered how quickly new youtubers start getting deluged with offers to shill crappy products, wonder no longer - pretty much the moment you break 6000 subscribers or so, it goes nuts. So here's a tour of the Influencer Inbox Experience. This was kinda fun!

I made this at the request of the patrons on my Discord, and hey, you know, if there's anything you want me to do like this, I'm open to suggestions! I...

Donations complete

(Sorry for the half dozen posts, just gotta make sure this is clear.)

Just made the donation to the Prevent Cancer Foundation in the total of $4,000, so from here on any Ko-fi's will just be funding me, not saving lives, heh. Thank you again to everyone who contributed!

Final donation notice

Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you know that since GDQ is beginning tomorrow I'm going to stop taking donations for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, so if you had been planning on contributing to the pot (which reached about $3600!) please do so today. I am very grateful to everyone who's helped me make a statement against cancer, for whatever that means.

Video: Nikon what don't take flash cards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpJBHjl9_VU

Edit: Uploaded new version because I made a phenomenally brainless factual error in the original.

Remember my last post where I said I didn't know when I'd make a video again? I got real mad about that and stormed off to the studio to make a video in between coughs (they're getting better tbh.)

I have determined that the shortest video I can make in...

General updates

So, I got sick. I don't know if it's covid (it's nearly impossible to get tested right now) and I'm over the worst of it but I've had the same cough for a week now and no idea when it'll go away.

So I don't know when I'll make another video, because shooting in between coughs is not fun, nor is a lot of loud talking, not to mention that it's not a great idea to go to the electronics store etc when I'm still sick. So that's been miserable.


I've had a couple of phenomenally po...

Fundraiser update

I just wanted to let everyone know: thanks to your incredible generosity, I have more than $2300 in the pool to donate to the Prevent Cancer Foundation. That's amazing, and far more than my initial "goal" ($1k, which I wasn't sure I'd hit.)

I want to thank everyone who's contributed and anyone who's still planning on it. If there's anything to "the Christmas spirit," this is the most...

Christmas eve stream

https://youtu.be/V5zyr-3uxfQ

If your Christmas Eve isn't too busy, come watch me stream christmas games for a while!

GDQ / Prevent Cancer donations

Hi everyone,

I think I mentioned a few months ago that my girlfriend, Daria, was having to leave town on "family business" for a while. That ended up being two months, and it's because her mother was suffering from end-stage cancer which has now run its course.

It's been a tough time for both of us and I'm still readjusting to her being back. One thing I would like to do is to donate towards cancer prevention, and since I watch and donate via 2021-12-24 00:33:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Video: Ryobi soldering iron teardown

Edited again: Made a new version because I realized after my last video that if I don't make it clear up front, I am going to be deluged with comments telling me to buy a TS80/TS100/Pinecil. Title cards at the end explain my reasoning. I realize this will do absolutely no good, and I will get 500 comments telling me to "just" buy a TS80/TS100/Pinecil.

Edit: Found one minor error. Natch.

https://youtu.b...

Video: Jack Hawley's Unstoppable Computer Mouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POSPaiutNlQ

I almost called this "The AK47 Of Mice", but gun imagery ain't what I want in my thumbnails. Still, the sentiment's there; this mouse is an absolute trooper.

I gotta fess up here - because I hadn't actually tested this thing in a live-fire exercise until literally the last segment I shot (in fact, I shot it after I'd edited the whole rest of the video), I...

Video: Weird Stuff That I Have #3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klajo3zj3pU

Hey! It's been a long time since I did a show-and-tell of Stuff I Have. I just got a used GoPro and decided to try it out.

I happen to really like this video. I've wanted to do some less rehearsed stuff for a long time but the old studio, and the need to set up the camera and lighting and everything, made it more effort than it was worth. I really enjoyed...

60k subscriber Q&A

I missed 50k subs due to the office move and completely forgot I had planned on doing a 50k Subscriber Q&A Special until a couple days ago. So now it's a 60k special, and I'm taking questions from everyone - patrons too, of course. :P

(I realize it's been months since I did my last patron Q&A, and that's simply because I constantly forget to set up another one. I don't even know what the right frequency for that sort of thing is.)

Anyway, I *think* this link should take yo...

Peripherals

Doing some videos about Peripherals soon.

A viewer sent me a Hawley wheel mouse, a clever sort of alternate history gadget that actually postdates the ball mouse, yet draws on concepts from much earlier prototype designs in the pursuit of a mouse that can't get clogged with dust. I've never tried one before and I'm excited to see how it performs.

I think I have to do some kind of infomercial demo with it where I open up a normal ball mouse and show that rolling it over some kind o...

Video: Shareware Existentialism in '95

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtW3bdp7h8c

I basically bought a new mic just so I could do this video.

BTS: finally

After spending a month moving stuff into the office and then struggling to get the last video done, I have finally managed to pack out all the cardboard garbage and I have clear floor space again.

Also, fax is coming soon.

Video: 7 users on 1 PC! - But is it legal?

https://youtu.be/v8tjA8VyfvU

First video in the new studio and I did my best to use every part of the animal, so this took two weeks and I'm exhausted.

BTS: Studio update #4 (I got stung by a wasp)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMWXbwCfUlA

I was supposed to be trying to finish shooting and editing the next video this weekend but instead I got stung by a wasp. It has been twenty+ years since that happened and the pain is exactly as bad as I remember. So instead here's this weirdly intense clip I shot at midnight while flabbergasted by how well this NComputing gadget works. tl;dr I massively upgrad...

BTS: 6

BTS: Studio update #3

I've finished the first 90% of setting up this new place and now only need to do the remaining 90%.

BTS: I'm a computer (stop all the downloadin)

So, I said I was gonna buy a Mac Mini, but then I Thought About It a little more. I wish Apple wasn't so committed to ruining their own products to no benefit. They make beautiful computers, i obviously respect the achievements of the M1 chip, but then they make their machines absolutely unusable to anyone who Does A Lot, for really no reason, by leaving out things that would cost them almost nothing.

As sculptures, a Macbook or Mini are beautiful, and as something to hook up to a keybo...

Marathon stream on Friday

Hello everyone! This Friday I will be doing a stream marathon from 9 AM to 9 PM Pacific, on my main channel, to raise funds to finish setting up my new studio.

I'm incredibly grateful for everything you're contributing here, but this coming payout is not going to cover the rest of my initial expenses - it'll cover my day-to-day going forward, but I had to make a lot of financial compromises to get the place, I'm in a lot of debt, and it would take several months to get the rest of what...

Video - CRD: 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyw0bN3QiJc

BTS: Wall (the revenge (the revenge))

I was worried it wasn't gonna look consistent but it absolutely does now that it's dry.

BTS: Wall (the revenge)

Yes, the teal will stay.